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Dec 19, 2022

22 Books I Listened to in 2022 & Recommendations for You

This is now the 7th year I’m writing this blog post, hopefully, it has not become boring and you will find a couple of books from this list that are new and you get to read over the holidays or next year. Many of you know that I mostly listen…

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22 Books I Listened to in 2022 & Recommendations for You
22 Books I Listened to in 2022 & Recommendations for You
Books

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Dec 20, 2021

18 Books I Read/Listened in 2021

This is now the sixth year I’m writing this post, hopefully, it has not become boring and you find a couple of books from this list that are new and you get to read over the holidays or next year. …

Books

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18 Books I Read/Listened in 2021
18 Books I Read/Listened in 2021
Books

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May 14, 2021

Founding CEO vs. Hired CEO: What the Data Reveals

Steve Jobs, Jerry Yang, and many other founders were fired from their companies. What percentage of founders remained as CEO and were they more successful? — If you’ve been following my recent posts, you may know that I spent the last four years conducting one of the largest data-driven studies into startups, trying to understand what was different between the startups that became billion-dollar successes versus those that did not. …

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Founding CEO vs. Hired CEO: What the Data Reveals
Founding CEO vs. Hired CEO: What the Data Reveals
Entrepreneurship

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May 10, 2021

What I Learned About Startups by Collecting 30,000 Data Points

I spent four years conducting one of the largest data-driven studies on startups, and here’s what it reveals about the difference between billion-dollar startups and startups that raised VC funding but failed to become one. — Some of you may remember a medium article I published two years ago which included dozens of colorful charts that showed data-driven facts about unicorns. That article went viral with hundreds of thousands of readers. One key feedback I received was that I needed to compare the results from the…

Startup

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What I Learned About Startups by Collecting 30,000 Data Points
What I Learned About Startups by Collecting 30,000 Data Points
Startup

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·May 4, 2021

The Founders of Clubhouse, Spotify, Stripe, and 42% of Unicorns Have One Thing in Common

Founders with a small exit in their first company were much more likely to build a unicorn in their next, a new study of startups shows — Alex Tew isn’t your stereotypical Ivy League college dropout or software engineer at Google who founded a billion-dollar startup. Tew was a student at Nottingham University when he started his first project. His itch for building something and making some money had led him to create “The Million Dollar Homepage”…

Startup

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The Founders of Clubhouse, Spotify, Stripe, and 42% of Unicorns Have One Thing in Common
The Founders of Clubhouse, Spotify, Stripe, and 42% of Unicorns Have One Thing in Common
Startup

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Dec 21, 2020

Books I Read In 2020 and Recommendations For You

This is now the fifth year I’m writing this post, hopefully, it has not become boring and you find a couple of books from this list that are new and you get to read over the holidays or next year. You can also find the lists for the last three…

Books

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Books I Read In 2020 and Recommendations For You
Books I Read In 2020 and Recommendations For You
Books

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Dec 18, 2019

Books I listened to in 2019

This title is boring, but these books are not! — As I have done in the past couple of years (2018 list, 2017 list), I’m sharing the list of books I finished this year. As always, I have been using Audible and listening to books on 2.5x speed (I’ve slowly trained myself over the past 4 years and now perfectly…

Startup

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Books I listened to in 2019
Books I listened to in 2019
Startup

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Jan 1, 2019

18 Books I Finished Listening To in 2018

It’s that time of the year again and as we are heading to start a new year, here is a recap of the books I listened to in the past year. I have been doing this exercise for the past three years (Here’s the list of the books I listened…

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18 Books I Finished Listening To in 2018
18 Books I Finished Listening To in 2018
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Dec 5, 2018

Land of the “Super Founders“— A Data-Driven Approach to Uncover the Secrets of Billion Dollar Startups

I Spent 300 Hours Gathering Data On Billion-Dollar Startups and Here’s 100 Charts You Shouldn’t Miss — Update: I wrote a book. “Super Founders” I spent another two years after the publication of this article gathering the same data on non-unicorn startups, so I could accurately compare what differentiates billion-dollar startups from those that failed to become one. This is the first such study that has been…

Startup

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Land of the “Super Founders“— A Data-Driven Approach to Uncover the Secrets of Billion Dollar…
Land of the “Super Founders“— A Data-Driven Approach to Uncover the Secrets of Billion Dollar…
Startup

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Mar 23, 2018

Dropbox Plus Another $100Bn+ Worth of Companies Founded by Iranian-Americans

$600Bn+ is the total market cap of public companies with Iranian-Americans on the Board of Directors (Source: IA-CP) — Today, Dropbox had its long-anticipated initial public offering and was offered on NASDAQ under the ticker DBX. The total value at the offering was around $9Bn. …

Entrepreneurship

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Dropbox Plus Another $100Bn+ Worth of Companies Founded by Iranian-Americans
Dropbox Plus Another $100Bn+ Worth of Companies Founded by Iranian-Americans
Entrepreneurship

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Partner at DCVC ($4Bn VC firm) and author of “Super Founders”. #1 bestseller new release VC book on Amazon. https://getbook.at/superfounders

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